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House

Carolingian dynasty

Frankish noble family founded by Charles Martel

  • Within Karolingische periode (computed)
  • Also called Carlovingians, Carolings, Karlings

A family
on the record,
reign by reign.

Documented kin

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Members · 37

The house, member by member

One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.

What this means

People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.

9 children in the house

  1. Charles the Younger 772 CE – 811 CE
  2. Rotrude c. 775 CE – 810 CE
  3. Pepin of Italy 777 CE – 810 CE 1 child in the house
  4. Louis the Pious 778 CE – 840 CE 5 children in the house
  5. Bertha between 779 and 780 CE – after 823 CE
  6. Gisela 781 CE – after 800 CE
  7. Theodrada c. 785 CE – between 844 and 853 CE
  8. Drogo 801 CE – 855 CE
  9. Hugh between 802 and 806 CE – 844 CE
One family in Carolingian dynasty: members whose records name this parent, oldest first. A parent from another house is on the child’s own page. Open the family tree

Every member

People whose own records place them in this house.

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Succession

Offices held in the house

The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.

King of Franks

  • 10 holders
  • 1 overlap
  • 2 gaps
  • 5 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. November 751 CE – 24 September 768 CE Pepin the Short King of the Franks from 751 to 768
  2. 9 October 768 CE – 28 January 814 CE Charlemagne king of Franks, regarded as the first Holy Roman Emperor (747–814) (742-814)
  3. Overlap held at the same time as Charlemagne

    9 October 768 CE – 4 December 771 CE Carloman I King of the Franks (r. 768–771)
  4. Gap about 43 years before the next in this house

    28 January 814 CE – 20 June 840 CE Louis the Pious King of the Franks
  5. Gap about 15 years before the next in this house

    855 CE – 869 CE Lothair II of Lotharingia King of Lotharingia from 855 to 869

No dates recorded 5

King of East Francia

  • 5 holders
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 1st 843 CE – 876 CE Louis the German King of East Francia from 843 to 876
  2. 2nd 876 CE – 882 CE Louis III the Younger King of East Francia
  3. 3rd 882 CE – 887 CE Charles the Fat Emperor of the Carolingian Empire (839-888) (r. 881-887)
  4. 4th 887 CE – 899 CE Arnulf of Carinthia king of East Francia
  5. 5th 900 CE – 911 CE Louis the Child King of East Francia and Lotharingia

Abbess

  • 4 holders
  • 1 overlap
  • 1 gap
  • 1 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. 800 CE – 810 CE Gisela, Abbess of Chelles Roman Catholic nun and abbess
  2. Gap about 4 years before the next in this house

    from 814 CE Theodrada daughter of Charlemagne Hedged in the source
  3. Overlap held at the same time as Theodrada

    17 November 878 CE – 896 CE Ermengard of Italy -896 Has references

No dates recorded 1

  • Dates unrecorded Gisela Frankish noble, daughter of Louis the Pious
Every recorded holder

Duke of Bavaria

  • 4 holders
  • 4 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

No dates recorded 4

Chronology is not a full explanation

Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.

Religious context · a separate claim

Affiliation

Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.

What this means

Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.

Affiliations recorded on members

An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.

Connections

How Carolingian dynasty connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 1

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

1 statement on this record

  • 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: a date from its recorded time period. Each is marked where it is shown.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Junta Granada Informa from Granada, España · CC BY-SA 2.0

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